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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
Those are completely orthogonal to accepting all of the risk, from the point of view of a CEO, of battery failures for cars you sold 10 years ago. But yes, making things repairable is really important. And, I certainly have concerns that th
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
That's easy to say when you aren't the one considering adding a huge liability to the companies bottom line. There are also some elements of EV ownership where they require some TLC, like not overcharging them when doing mostly lo
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I used to regularly go to a comedy show on the site of an old brewery in Wandsworth. The comedy cost £20 but the beer was free. Apparently the site was the oldest continuous used brewery in Europe and the head brewer decided to keep the rec
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
My partner had booked a table for lunch for us and our friends. Six adults and six children. One of the couples had forgotten a party earlier that morning, so we tried to move the booking a couple of hours later. Unfortunately the only phon
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
In any ordinary times this would be an incredible endorsement. I'm not sure it works in the current timeline though.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
This feels like a stretch. It would be impossible for someone who didn't know how an engine worked to repair or improve the design of it.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
It's merely a ToS violation.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
> Can there be bugs? Sure. That's the price of not reading or understanding every line. I've yet to come across a human developer who's output would meet this standard, despite writing every line. In fact, having an LLM re
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I have a vague memory of there being some case law or interpretation here. But certainly doesn't bare much resemblance to what the original law makers had in mind.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I've often wondered what basis companies are using for the "opt-in to tracking or pay to opt out model". It has spread now to even fairly reputable organisations. This, at least to my understanding, runs contrary to the spiri
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
In general humans don't have perfect recall. Even people with what we might call a photographic memory don't have the ability to memorise millions of lines of code and output them with little effort. It hinges somewhat on the conc
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I wondered how long it would be until someone took the obvious step of wiring a voice assistant up to a full blown LLM model. Seems like the thing I failed to consider was whether that was actually a good idea.
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
> They'll just be far fewer than they used to be. I do tend to agree. Though at the current pace of change I don't know if we can take it for granted. As a recent example, I was on a chat with the two most experienced technical
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
Honestly, with the caliber of people who currently comprise the US administration; leaving the whole thing to Openclaw and some new fancy model might not be the worst idea.
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I think there is going to be a long time before all of the obscure knowledge of a decent software developer can be completely replaced by AI. Though the job is going to change beyond recognition. It already has in many ways.
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
Technical debt is a indefinable quantity which makes it very prone to be abused to mean "I wish I could rewrite this in [insert some fashionable language, framework or coding style]". AI slop is an easier concept to quantify. It&#
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
The crocodile tears of companies who've hoovered up everything possible, regardless of permissions or legality, now crying that someone else is stealing their hard work is comical. I don't even think they can believe it themselves
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I have my use covered by my employer but we also have budgets and limits.
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I think we're all past the "bet-money-can-buy" stage. The most expensive models are an order of magnitude more expensive than the middle ground ones, so you need to be selective about what you run where. And with a bit of car
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I'd think for most companies the pace of change is too high at the moment. Give it a few years, a bit of a plateau in the improvements in frontier models and I can't see how many of these companies don't implode under the wei
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
Or, in the real world, running a limited liability company could come with some sensible reporting requirements?
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
What are the arguments against public reporting? As a consumer you are often sending deposits or even the full cost of goods to companies some time before you receive those goods (in effect you become a creditor). You are also dependent upo
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
Not if the Cessna is a King Katmai 182...that would have room to spare.
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I don't know if you can claim one is more straightforward. Sure a Cessna flies slower and has relatively simple aerodynamics. However, you could also be operating it out of a 400m sloping grass strip with a mountain off one end. An A32
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by VBprogrammer 5mo ago
In a world where everything is shit, could I at least take away some solace in this helping to reduce Cloudflares hegemony?
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by VBprogrammer 5mo ago
People say shit about Muslims and our country being full all the time and nothing happens. The law does make it illegal to insight violence though so if you publicly suggest buring down a hotel you might find yourself in trouble. It makes a
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by VBprogrammer 5mo ago
You did a good job of walking the line here. A tiny bit less over the top and I'd have not been convinced it was satire.
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by VBprogrammer 5mo ago
Yeah, for some reason the knot broke on the inside rather than at that connector.
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by VBprogrammer 5mo ago
My son recently broke the string on the light cord in the bathroom. I opened it up in perhaps the naive expectation that someone would have designed that in such a way that the string can be reattached. Sadly it wasn't. In fact when yo
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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
A little bit off topic but our company recently enforced Microsoft Authenticator for account login. Which I was mildly annoyed about but now I'm super pissed off because they have started abusing the notification permission granted to

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